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David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
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“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
— Stanley Kubrick
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Unesco lists tom yum kung as humanity’s intangible cultural heritage
“The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) early Wednesday morning listed tom yum kung, a Thai spicy prawn soup, as one of Thailand’s intangible cultural heritages.”
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“Anne Wood, co-creator of the show, and Andrew Davenport, the series writer, told The Guardian in a 2013 article titled, ‘How we made: Teletubbies,’ that their inspiration for the show’s characters came from visiting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Wood recalled the initial development of the show: ‘We were interested in how children were reacting to the increasingly technological environment of the late 1990s. We’d just visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and Andrew [Davenport] had been amused at how astronauts looked like toddlers in nappies.’”